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bewailings

bewailings is the plural of bewailing.

Meaning of bewailing

Noun

bewailing (plural bewailings)

  1. The act of one who bewails something.
    • We might have been!—these are but common words,
      And yet they make the sum of life's bewailing;
      They are the echo of those finer chords,
      Whose music life deplores when unavailing,
      We might have been!1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXI. Lady Marchmont’s Journal.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 158

Questions about bewailings

What is bewailings the plural of?
Bewailings is the plural of bewailing.

Words near bewailings in the dictionary

  1. bewailers
  2. bewailest
  3. bewaileth
  4. bewailing
  5. bewailingly
  6. bewailings
  7. bewailment
  8. bewailments
  9. bewails
  10. bewaistcoated
  11. bewake

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